Ladies, These are Excellent quotes and great questions! Well done :-) Scarlett Question Numero Uno
"The Romantic period has an immediacy which earlier ones tend to lack. This is because so many of our values and preoccupations derive from it." -Duncan Wu
Discuss the values and preoccupations you recognise today that are explored in the texts you have studied and texts of your own choosing.
Question Numero Duos
Romantic individualism empowered and emancipated "ordinary man", who "found for the first time in history that he had the right to express his own opinions, to reveal his own emotions, and especially to exercise his own imagination." -Van de Bogart
Evaluate the extent to which the texts you have studied and texts of your own selection support this statement.
Courtney: 1) Romanticism involved "moments of collision in which the power of the individual's mind and his or her faith in the imagination, imposed a sense of order and gave value to his or her life against insuperable odds."- Ian Johnston "Introduction to the Romantic Era in English Poetry" [lecture]
Evaluate the extent to support this time in reference to 2 set texts and related texts.
2) "What we see when we look at the period as a whole is rather an extraordinary flowering and richness of creativity, involving individual writers who were drawn to think and write in new ways"
Discuss the ways of thinking particular to Romanticism, with reference to 2 set texts and texts of your own choosing.
Jacintha's Questions:
a)“Romanticism was born in opposition and sorrow, in social or national crisis, and in individual trauma.” - David Blayney Brown
Write an essay in which you explore the extent to which this is true of the texts you have studied. In your response, refer to TWO prescribed texts AND texts of your own choosing.
b) “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Evaluate this statement with an acknowledgement of the ways of thinking pertinent to Romanticism. In your response, refer to at least TWO set texts and texts of your own choosing. GLORIA CHO
1. "Romanticism was a celebration, a life-enhancing hymn of praise to the beautiful thing in the world.' -Neil King
Evaluate this statement referring to two set texts and two texts of your own choosing.
2. 'Instead they (the Romantics) sought a freer concept of truth based on individual experience and -most importantly -the Imagination.'
Discuss this statement with reference to the tenets of Romanticism. Refer to two set texts and two texts of your own choosing.
Laurie-Anne:
1. 'Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.' - Rousseau Discuss this statement with reference to the tenets of Romanticism and the movement's ideals. Refer to at least two set texts and texts of your own choosing in your response.
2. ‘Romanticism posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind.’ - Ian Johnston In your response, discuss the ways of thinking particular to Romanticism with reference to this statement. Refer to at least two set texts and texts of your own choosing. Marilee
1. " ... We should learn to use the word 'Romanticism' in the plural... any study of the subject should begin with a recognition of a prima facie plurality of Romanticisms" - Arthur Lovejoy
Assess this statement with close referance to two prescribed texts and a supplementary text of your choosing.
2. "The Romantic Movement... posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind" - Ian Johnston
Evaluate the extent to which this is true for your prescribed and supplementary texts.
Lydia
Question 1: 'You need to think of Romantic literature not as escapist in the way the term ‘Romantic’ sometimes suggests, but as literature that tries passionately to come to terms with the modern world as it emerge through a series of wrenching changes.' - Paul O' Flinn
Evaluate the extent to which this is reflected in TWO of your set texts and texts of your own choosing, making detailed reference to the Romantic context.
Question 2:
'Imagination is a shaping or modifying power'- Samuel T. Coleridge
Discuss the relevence of this quote and the elevated position of the imagination within Romanticism. Refer to TWO of your set texts and and texts of your own choosing. Laureanne
‘throughout the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in various forms of disorder… Complementing this trend was a growing interest in abnormal behaviour in madness, crime, rebellion for its own sake.’ Ian Johnston.
{Q} The Romantics explored a sense of rebellion either in their works or throughout their life. How did Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Keats collection of poems reflect this Romantic tenet?
‘One characteristic of Romantic texts is not only that they differ from each other, but that they may explicitly or implicitly debate with each other.’ Stephen Bygrave.
{Q} Not every Romantic writer rejected the previous Enlightenment ideas of order and logic. With referenceanalyse how significant Romantic writers debated with each other.
‘The imagination, it seems, is dependent on the ‘figure of the poet’ and to describe or define imagination is to describe or define the ‘person’ of the poet who possesses it.’ Graham Allen.
{Q} Did Keats and Coleridge use the imagination in their texts as a reflection of themselves and their ways of thinking? Evaluate how they did or did not do so.
‘Women of literature are much more numerous of late than they were a few years ago. They make a class in society, they fill the public eye, and have acquired a degree of consequence and an appropriate character.’ Maria Edgeworth. to Bygrave and two of your set texts,
{Q} What affect did the emergence of women writers have on the literature of the Romantic Movement?
‘But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.’
{Q} With reference to the extract from Blake’s The Cold and the Pebble evaluate how the Romantic writers of your set texts built an alternate, imagined world on the foundation of the everyday.
[I understand this is worded strangely. I want to explore how Romantic writers were inspired by everyday/common events, people or things to imagine an alternate reality. More that they based their imagined world (built a Heaven) in the reality they experienced (in Hells despair)]
-->‘Baillie and other women poets preceded Wordsworth in bringing the vigour of common life and language to their poems.’ Amanda Gilroy. Tara
1. "Romantics encourage the reader's imagination, ( to do what ? How? this is a fragment of an idea. Ms. M) and in blurring the boundaries between supernatural and illusiory dimensions and natural and real worlds, loosened the moral and rational structures that ordered everyday life."
Evaluate, with reference to two set texts of your own choosing and one related text.
2. "Over every form and threat, and punishment, and dim sightless incarceration, brooded a sense of eternity and infinity that drove me into an oppression as of madness."
How does this quote reflect the ideas of the Romantic movement? Refer to Coleridge and a set text of your own choosing.
Scarlett
Question Numero Uno
"The Romantic period has an immediacy which earlier ones tend to lack. This is because so many of our values and preoccupations derive from it."
-Duncan Wu
Discuss the values and preoccupations you recognise today that are explored in the texts you have studied and texts of your own choosing.
Question Numero Duos
Romantic individualism empowered and emancipated "ordinary man", who "found for the first time in history that he had the right to express his own opinions, to reveal his own emotions, and especially to exercise his own imagination."
-Van de Bogart
Evaluate the extent to which the texts you have studied and texts of your own selection support this statement.
Courtney:
1) Romanticism involved "moments of collision in which the power of the individual's mind and his or her faith in the imagination, imposed a sense of order and gave value to his or her life against insuperable odds."- Ian Johnston "Introduction to the Romantic Era in English Poetry" [lecture]
Evaluate the extent to support this time in reference to 2 set texts and related texts.
2) "What we see when we look at the period as a whole is rather an extraordinary flowering and richness of creativity, involving individual writers who were drawn to think and write in new ways"
Discuss the ways of thinking particular to Romanticism, with reference to 2 set texts and texts of your own choosing.
Jacintha's Questions:
a)“Romanticism was born in opposition and sorrow, in social or national crisis, and in individual trauma.” - David Blayney Brown
Write an essay in which you explore the extent to which this is true of the texts you have studied. In your response, refer to TWO prescribed texts AND texts of your own choosing.
b) “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Evaluate this statement with an acknowledgement of the ways of thinking pertinent to Romanticism. In your response, refer to at least TWO set texts and texts of your own choosing.
GLORIA CHO
1. "Romanticism was a celebration, a life-enhancing hymn of praise to the beautiful thing in the world.' -Neil King
Evaluate this statement referring to two set texts and two texts of your own choosing.
2. 'Instead they (the Romantics) sought a freer concept of truth based on individual experience and -most importantly -the Imagination.'
Discuss this statement with reference to the tenets of Romanticism. Refer to two set texts and two texts of your own choosing.
Laurie-Anne:
1. 'Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.' - Rousseau
Discuss this statement with reference to the tenets of Romanticism and the movement's ideals. Refer to at least two set texts and texts of your own choosing in your response.
2. ‘Romanticism posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind.’ - Ian Johnston
In your response, discuss the ways of thinking particular to Romanticism with reference to this statement. Refer to at least two set texts and texts of your own choosing.
Marilee
1. " ... We should learn to use the word 'Romanticism' in the plural... any study of the subject should begin with a recognition of a prima facie plurality of Romanticisms" - Arthur Lovejoy
Assess this statement with close referance to two prescribed texts and a supplementary text of your choosing.
2. "The Romantic Movement... posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind" - Ian Johnston
Evaluate the extent to which this is true for your prescribed and supplementary texts.
Lydia
Question 1:
'You need to think of Romantic literature not as escapist in the way the term ‘Romantic’ sometimes suggests, but as literature that tries passionately to come to terms with the modern world as it emerge through a series of wrenching changes.' - Paul O' Flinn
Evaluate the extent to which this is reflected in TWO of your set texts and texts of your own choosing, making detailed reference to the Romantic context.
Question 2:
'Imagination is a shaping or modifying power'- Samuel T. Coleridge
Discuss the relevence of this quote and the elevated position of the imagination within Romanticism. Refer to TWO of your set texts and and texts of your own choosing.
Laureanne
‘throughout the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in various forms of disorder… Complementing this trend was a growing interest in abnormal behaviour in madness, crime, rebellion for its own sake.’ Ian Johnston.
{Q} The Romantics explored a sense of rebellion either in their works or throughout their life. How did Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Keats collection of poems reflect this Romantic tenet?
‘One characteristic of Romantic texts is not only that they differ from each other, but that they may explicitly or implicitly debate with each other.’ Stephen Bygrave.
{Q} Not every Romantic writer rejected the previous Enlightenment ideas of order and logic. With referenceanalyse how significant Romantic writers debated with each other.
‘The imagination, it seems, is dependent on the ‘figure of the poet’ and to describe or define imagination is to describe or define the ‘person’ of the poet who possesses it.’ Graham Allen.
{Q} Did Keats and Coleridge use the imagination in their texts as a reflection of themselves and their ways of thinking? Evaluate how they did or did not do so.
‘Women of literature are much more numerous of late than they were a few years ago. They make a class in society, they fill the public eye, and have acquired a degree of consequence and an appropriate character.’ Maria Edgeworth. to Bygrave and two of your set texts,
{Q} What affect did the emergence of women writers have on the literature of the Romantic Movement?
‘But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hells despair.’
{Q} With reference to the extract from Blake’s The Cold and the Pebble evaluate how the Romantic writers of your set texts built an alternate, imagined world on the foundation of the everyday.
[I understand this is worded strangely. I want to explore how Romantic writers were inspired by everyday/common events, people or things to imagine an alternate reality. More that they based their imagined world (built a Heaven) in the reality they experienced (in Hells despair)]
-->‘Baillie and other women poets preceded Wordsworth in bringing the vigour of common life and language to their poems.’ Amanda Gilroy.
Tara
1. "Romantics encourage the reader's imagination, ( to do what ? How? this is a fragment of an idea. Ms. M) and in blurring the boundaries between supernatural and illusiory dimensions and natural and real worlds, loosened the moral and rational structures that ordered everyday life."
Evaluate, with reference to two set texts of your own choosing and one related text.
2. "Over every form and threat, and punishment, and dim sightless incarceration, brooded a sense of eternity and infinity that drove me into an oppression as of madness."
How does this quote reflect the ideas of the Romantic movement? Refer to Coleridge and a set text of your own choosing.